Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:41:21 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-current@bzerk.org> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Rom Albuquerque <a_romolo@hotmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT.. Message-ID: <20090917074121.GA13242@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20090917001151.GA4829@duncan.reilly.home> References: <SNT114-W30A82828223906987304DBEDE30@phx.gbl> <20090916065625.GA627@lonesome.com> <200909161451.02432.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <20090916225319.GA1790@duncan.reilly.home> <4AB17542.9010401@FreeBSD.org> <20090917001151.GA4829@duncan.reilly.home>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:11:51AM +1000, Andrew Reilly typed: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:31:14PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > There are also the issues of CPU horesepower and quantity of RAM that > > are potential problems on hardware that is at minimum 6 years old. > > Everything about this project shouts DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! to me. > > Oh, I don't know. I'm running 7-STABLE (February vintage: it's > too slow to rebuild very often) on an old P-III/500 box with > 512M of RAM. Works beautifully for what I'm asking of it (not > much). That box probably started with something of the 3- or > 4- vintage and upgraded continuously in place. I do remember > giving it a new disk drive when I did the step to UFS2, though. I run FreeBSD 8.0 on a soekris 100 Mhz "i586" with 64 MB. Smoothly. Ruben
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